OPERATION BARBAROSSA:
the Complete Organisational
and Statistical Analysis

Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis

This work comprises the most historically accurate, advanced and comprehensive quantitative model yet, of the first six months of the largest and costliest military campaign in history.

This web site aims to give the reader an in depth preview, and promote awareness, of this large and ongoing project.

On 22nd June 1941, the Wehrmacht launched the largest invasion in recorded history, under the code name Operation Barbarossa.

Operation Barbarossa is unrivalled in military history for size, speed of operations, and the magnitude of its geographic objectives. The Wehrmacht's objective was no less than the complete defeat of the USSR, a country possessing by far the largest army and air force in the world at that time.

This study focuses on the period from 22nd June to 31st December 1941.

This is the period when the Soviet Union came closest to defeat, and arguably the only period when Germany could still win WWII outright. Since the end of WWII, debate has raged about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Soviet high commands, especially during the critical period from July to September 1941.